Friday, December 17, 2010

Under the call for international solidarity with comrade Giannis Dimitrakis abducted by the Greek state for a bank robbery, harassed and persecuted for his ideas and used as an excuse for a "witch hunt" against anarchists and anti-authoritarians, on December 6 (day of Giannis' appeal trial) a group of anarchists marched to the embassy of Greece in Buenos Aires, showing solidarity with comrade Giannis, and reporting on his situation with flyers and a banner that said freedom to Giannis Dimitrakis and all the imprisoned comrades in Greece. The demonstration lasted about 1 hour and the leaflet was read several times with a megaphone and traffic on av. santa fe interrupted. A passing federal patrol received an object with paint inside and on the windscreen, the same as a policeman and a window of a place. BECAUSE SOLIDARITY HAS NO BORDERS, SOLIDARITY WITH OUR COMRADES IMPRISONED IN GREECE AND IN THE WHOLE WORLD! ALEXIS GRIGOROPULOS HERE! FREEDOM TO GIANNIS DIMITRAKIS!

The atmosphere of UK State repression and 'queen's peace' was definitively broken on the 10th November 2010, when the Millbank Tower, Conservative Party HQ, was stormed by a mob of malcontents, during a demonstration against student fees

The roof-top scenes of occupation and property destruction dispelled the long-held belief that the cops have the upper hand on the streets of the United Kingdom, and especially in the open-CCTV-prison of London. Something much more occurred that day than the complete trashing of the ruling political party's headquarters in the capital city - an aching festive class violence was openly expressed and transmitted everywhere via global media, to all others in resistance around the world.

Again this incredible force was experienced on 9 December, and it still only felt like the beginning.

The opportunity of this moment is the opportunity for mass social rebellion. And within this is the necessity for those that consider themselves already a 'politically conscious' and 'active' class to know when to keep silent, when to step aside and to recognise that the opportunity being presented to them is to divest themselves of their own redundant, prescriptive and obstructive attachment to their own models of theory and action.

Numerous 'interactions' ('direct action skillshares/trainings', 'meetings', calls for a centralising 'Network'/Platform) have popped up over the past couple of weeks during the student uprisings. There is certainly value in telling people to mask up in demos, for example, or what to do when arrested, but is there really a value in 'teaching' rebellion, aside from the need of those teaching it to assert their own ego and present themselves as experts in struggle? In the recent riots, the crowd didn't need to be trained or incited to attack police vehicles and occupy or destroy buildings, it occurs anywhere the people feel confident enough to resist openly en masse.

The anti-capitalist 'struggle' in the UK has, in the last ten years, largely produced nothing worthwhile aside from myriad activist quangoes and some nice careers. If we need to fill any holes in our political identities, let's fill them with curiosity. No sooner does authentic fury explode in the streets, then activist initiatives spring up seeking to manage it, to democratise it, to control it: the beauty of the unknown is at once crushed into the machinery of the leftist bureaucrats. Rolling out the decades failing interminable script, - action medics, people's kitchens, workshops, email lists, ad nauseam – and calling upon the controllables – climate camp, social activist groups, federations, reformist single-issue campaigns; all the tranquilising themes – so that the social managers can attempt to make it palatable and compliant to their careerist manipulations, as frightened of the uncontrollable as the state.

In the last five years, very few of the 'conscious political' class - the activists - have succeeded in getting out of a kettle nor finding their projects developing into one of attack. Because - as the young people and the angry know - to get out of a kettle requires a project of chaos and attack. And that is precisely what the activist cannot and will not engage in, beyond the symbolic.

Why? Because the activist project is not about rebellion nor about chaos. It is primarily a project of reigning in, of taming the unruly desire to break out of all constraints, to specialise it, professionalise it and rationalise it.

The activist project is the maintenance of a self-aggrandising, elitist and fictitious movement. It is a policed theatre of diversion and deference organised by social managers and leftist incompetents. It is an easily infiltrated and repressed illusion full of substitute activities for the well-meaning to waste their time with. How useful for the State to have open umbrella organisations of activism which can pressure people into certain types of conforming and exploitable democratic behaviour, all under the double-speak banner of 'inclusivity', 'consensus' and 'diversity of tactics'. Activism is 'political' thought and 'political' engagement as an impediment to real struggle.

It is the very experience of embedding oneself in a 'politically-conscious' scene and the rules that are built up within it that can lead to paralysis and counter-revolution. In the moment when you need to defend yourself, pick up and throw stones or set fire to a target or barricade, those already entrenched in a morass of theories, debates and dubious ideas of alliance and affinity, many of those who imagine themselves holding some kind of blueprint for social change or revolution and feeling the need for 'intervention', pause, and back off from the clash.

We will not attend any “anti-cuts” activist gatherings nor will we send 'delegates' as if we were some organisational department or cheap NGO. We are not for continuing any of the structures or concepts given to us by democracy.

Those who would 'intervene' must take some time to ask themselves whether they simply wish to constrain within their own limits of thought, understanding and action, an emerging rebellion. Let the young people create new, unpredicted pathways. Let us break our own patterns, and then destroy that most insidious police force – that within us which wields batons of ideology, and which hides it's own impotence, historical inefficacy and fear behind crash barriers of 'necessary infrastructure' and 'organisation'. We want the time to see what comes out of real chaos. Out of rebellion into freedom.

Formalising a struggle too early leads to the death of that conflictual tension; without formalisation there is only social force, which cannot be repressed through its representations, it spreads and detonates social conditions through existing class conflicts and rage. It eventually finds fluid form in informal groupings of affinity through which we can communicate as equals, rather than as stereo-types. Self-management of our struggle, not our everyday drudgery, begins through organising attacks; it is in the highly charged space of the attack – the experience of freedom - that the individual and collective mind, realising in an instant its volition, power, self-determination and willful vitality, can escape dated concepts and forms.

We are not suggesting that we'll not engage in the student uprisings - or any other uprising - but we'll do so with the aim of meeting others with whom we might share a theoretical and tactical affinity for the purpose of social revolution.

We know who we are, what we think and what we desire. We'll continue acting as we always have, alongside and within the coming storm. Understanding these parameters of our own consciousness and practice of engagement, what we plan for is to ride this new social energy, to enable it to give more power to the attacks that we anyway make, and hope that by contributing alongside the new rebel class - not by intervening in its development, we can broaden the struggle without imprisoning its potentiality within the usual cage of reasonable dissent, activism and identity politics. We wish to leave space for others to do the same. It will not be the case that if we attended a meeting of students, we would succeed in persuading them all to our vision of rebellion or of an alternative future world. Nor is there any possibility that at such a meeting, we would be persuaded suddenly to a position of reform or non-violence. As far as we are concerned, the system can only be fought through widespread violent means at street-level, blockading and sabotaging the flow of the economy, spreading the distribution of resources to the social majority and halting wage slavery through mass force.

As we are seeing, the anger is encompassing those people who are not part of the student movement, but have every reason to hate the police and the system.

No more will we remain concealed, once again we can draw a clear line between ourselves and the enemy, the exploiter class.

We call on all those who have made a decision to attack to develop our efforts and interlinked struggles at the base. Let's forge an aggressive push against the global system and it's representations. For the spread of the riots.

Alfie Meadows was attacked by cops at the student demo in London on the 9th December, he suffered internal bleeding on the brain which almost cost him his life. The nearest hospital had agreed to police orders to only treat injured police officers and not ordinary people coming from the demo. Only after an ambulance driver argued with the hospital officials was Alfie admitted, saving his life. Get well soon Alfie.

The battle against the far right in Poland is becoming more and more
intense . During the last few years Anti-fascist movement in Poland have
achieved big progress and managed to become something more than just
simply a street force opposing fascist scum in Polish cities. We
organise gigs, meetings, demonstrations, we publish a paper and print
tons of Anti-fascist propaganda like stickers and posters. Unfortunately
our enemies don't sleep. In certain cities level of nazi activity is
growing and its in turn resisted hard by commited local Anti-fascist
groups. Due to our successes militants face increasing level of state
repression as police is finally catching up with our progress and doing
it often with great enthusiasm.
For years we managed to be successful largely due to big international
support from our comrades around the world. We continuously need help in
order to carry on our struggle against often overwhelming odds. Every
penny we get helps to improve our effectiveness by enabling us to spread
our message wide with printed materials, strike fascist scum even harder
and provide good legal help for all comrades facing repression as a
result of their actions.

If you think you can help, contact us at: barbarians@riseup.net

Our Rules of Engagement:

- fighting fascism under any disguise and in every part of life: point
that is sef-explanatory. Doesn't matter if they are nazi skinheads,
"elite" from blood&honour, Polish fascists such as NOP or ONR, pagan
shitheads from Niklot or other kind of right wing, homophobic and racist
scum they are all our enemy and a target.

- against any sort of discrimination: while fighting groups representing
those ideas, discrimination should be also confronted in our own
circles.

- ideological and physical confrontation: it means fighting on two
levels. Fascists can never win control over streets, thats why physical
confrontation is inevitable and neccessary, but its a mistake to
concentrate only on this, forgetting about ideological struggle.
Fascisms breeds often where no body gave better alternatives for the
people and thats why they turned towards far right ideology. Countering
their propaganda is as important as physical struggle.

- ABSOLUTELY NO CO-OPERATION police and secret services: this
institutions are always our enemy and we cannot be fooled when they are
arresting nazis, because next day it can be us. 100% ACAB!

- No co-operation with political parties: for them anti-fascism is only
a fashionable slogan, bandwagon on which they can jump to get more
influence. When shit hits the fan, they are nowhere around.

- Authoritarian left is not an ally: all sorts of Lenin followers,
communists and pro-state socialists never were and never will be on our
side. For them anti-fascism is a disguise in struggle for power and from
the history we can learn how communist's allies end up when they are no
longer needed.

- no activity of fascists can stay without reaction: you will leave them
once, they will keep coming... - every group acts in full autonomy,
without structures from above: there is no central committee, every
antifa group acts as it sees fit, following only general rules.

- defense of our own people from the repression: militant anti-fascism
is not a game. Lots of our activities might break the law and you should
bear in mind legal consequences. Every person taking part in actions
must know, that he/she has all sort of help and unconditional solidarity
guaranteed.

The banks as pillars of capitalism create - the known and now evident- economic inequalities and construct the post-industrial capitalism, where the speed and the omnipotence of trade lead society to a complete mechanization and automatism.

On the other hand society insists to move in these predetermined ways, completely determined by the intellectual images and meanings of capitalism. What if it understands that the banks and capital cannot be maintained and exist without the callous exploitation and the more general degeneration of life, in the middle of this nodal period of evolution of capitalism, the average citizen not only is immobilized, but absorbing the dominating mentality leads to situations of social cannibalism. Instead of realising and striking the root of the problem, he repels it in midst his delirium of fear, and he defuses it either competitively to his fellow man repeating daily the dogma of capitalism " your death, is my life", or autistically to all sorts of outcasts (from immigrants that "take our jobs", to young people that sit with their feet on the seats of the bus etc).

On Friday afternoon wanting to bother the predetermined time-space journeys that the average citizen and the relation of dependence that it has with the monstrosities they call banks, we sabotaged 34 ATMs in the centre, Toumba, Triandria and Kalamaria areas.

This action happened also as a minimum of solidarity to the social robber G.Dimitrakis and we call all those that have realised the above conditions to participate multiformative, immediately in the game of deconstruction of the existing.

Freedom in Giannis Skouloudis - No prosecution to the 4 wanted comrades for the same case

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Today was the 2nd vote of No Confidence in the Berlusconi government. He survived by two votes. Across Italy, students, school kids and workers took the the streets to protest Berlusconi but also against the continuing neo-liberal education reforms. In Rome there were major clashes that saw the most heavy rioting seen in Italy since Genova in 2001. As well as this, economic blockades and occupations were put in place at many train stations, the port of Palermo and even on the runway of an airport in Sicily.

14 December 2010 - Thousands of college students demonstrated today in Rome and major cities in a day of action against the Gelmini reform and in support of the no-confidence vote against Berlusconi. Among them, however, are also added to the social centres and militant black bloc. And after the confidence in the House, the violence broke out.

Black Bloc activists and militants from the social centres, who had joined the student marches in the morning, reached corso Rinascimento, a step away from the Senate, presided over by the police. Against the police cars paper bombs, firecrackers, cobblestones, bottles and eggs rained down. There were riots and fights in different areas of the centre between Via del Corso and Piazza del Popolo, with charges of tear gas in response to improvised barricades with trash bins on fire, road blocks, broken windows, and assaults on armoured forces of law and order with sticks and hammers. A dozen young men with their faces covered raided the offices of civil defense in via Ulpiano smashing windows and throwing eggs, no injuries among employees. The wounded in the street however were at least 40. Among them a journalist of the Agi, hit in the face by a stone.

At Porta del Popolo police charged protesters engaged in heavy stone-throwing, to back them off to the Tiber. The bulk of the procession is split: one part is directed at the Flaminio district, the other Prati. A difficult day today for the Capital. In the streets, on the day in Parliament voted confidence in the Berlusconi government, university and high school students, along with temporary workers, workers, researchers, Aquila earthquake survivors and activists from struggles for housing and social welfare gathered under the name "united against the crisis."

The public prosecutor proposed that the defendant be found guilty for the robbery, which he has accepted, as well as the attempted homicide against the guard of the bank.

However he asked to change the criminal charge of criminal organisation he faces to the delinquency of “gang” since after his first trial acquittal for six of the seven robberies that he was initially accused of, the evidence of “continuous action” is “missing”. For this robbery Giannis Dimitrakis had been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

The public prosecutor, however, proposes basically to decrease his sentence since he asks he be exempted for two more attempted homicides against two cops for which he had been sentenced at the first trial. As for the injury of the police guard of the bank the Public Prosecutor stresses that there is no homicide intention from the defendant but only his “mental subscription to the perpetrators”. “Maybe he did not shoot himself but the perpetrators left organised and together in a way that shows that they had decided together before hand how to react to a potential obstacle”, he said.

The public prosecutor in order to justify his proposal characterized “contradictory and vague, the testimonies of the police officers”, while he stressed that “in the area they only found one bullet, a fact that shows that the defendant did not shoot continiously”. He asked though that of the mitigations that he asks for are recognized.

Earlier in his plea Giannis mentioned: “My punishment is a field for fighting and conflict with authority”.

The robbery was a representative solution for my ideological and existential problems. It is the answer to the question of how an anarchist goes on. In the dilemma if I shall remain a weak-minded spectator or an active citizen I decided to participate. In the end we will win!!!!

He called “comrades” the wanted Seisidis and Tsironis, as well as the arrested as members of Conspiracy Cells of Fire. He made a specific mention to Lambros Foundas that was killed in a clash with police officers in Dafni area and stressed that “in the Revolutionary Struggle case they criminalized human relations in a setting of American cutting similar to the 17 November group” and added: “it is a death that has been justified by the regime with the phrase "terrorist that died when he avoided arrest”.

G. Dimitrakis ended : “I was I am and I will be an anarchist. As long as I live and breathe the journey will continue”.

The trial will resume on the 23d of December when it is also expected the decision will be taken.

UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF EVERY PRISON, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, NO ONE IS FREE

Despite the decision taken by the court for a temporary cessation of work, the provocative repression forces didn’t leave the area so the clashes were rekindled. Residents attacked MAT (riot police) which today and all these days attacked and brutally beat people. There were melee fights between residents and cops, while a police bus was burned down by molotov cocktails. Today, cops arrested 5 residents.
It is estimated that more than 50 people were injured and several arrests were made.

Fierce battles between riot cops and locals resisting the construction of a waste burial site have continued for a third consecutive day in the area of Keratea, Attica (around 10 miles south of Athens International Airport). This morning, a court ordered a temporary halt to the works. A small victory, which could however very easily be a smokescreen to calm down the insurgent locals and to allow the police to concentrate on the General Strike in central Athens on Wednesday.
At least six people in struggle were arrested by police in Keratea, of which one has been injured and is in hospital.In the past two days, local residents of the area of Keratea in Attica (Greater Athens) have been engaged in a fierce battle with riot police (MAT). The riot police are there to protect the construction of a waste burial site (HITA). Such burial sites have not only been judged to be illegal by European courts but additionally, the site in Keratea is of archeological significance.
On Saturday, riot police arrived at the site to protect the ongoing construction works from the enraged locals. Clashes quickly erupted, with locals attacking the police with sticks, stones and scores of molotov cocktails. The police responded with tear gas while for the first time ever in Greece, water cannons also made their appearance. On Sunday evening, gunshots were aimed in the direction of the police from nearby hills.

Monday, December 13, 2010

On Sunday, December 12th, approximately 100 comrades gathered outside the prisons of Agios Stefanos (30 km outside Patras, in western Greece) in solidarity with those fighting behind the prison bars. A very high percentage of detainees throughout the country have gone on hunger strike or abstain from prison meals from 29 November to date. They demand the improvement of detention conditions. Read here for more details. Slogans were chanted, a banner that wrote “Passion for freedom is stronger that any prison” was hung, the prison walls were stenciled; there was music and two-way communication through speakers. A prisoner described on the phone the conditions they live in, and how those who fight are treated by prison guards. Prisoners waved and shouted back, burned sheets and hand-made flags.
No one fighting is alone! Solidarity to the struggle of prisoners!tusday14 has been called as a day of action and demos will take place across the country in solidarity.

On the appeal trial against the Lecce anarchists for so-called operation Nottetempo

As usually goes with the justice of the system, things turned badly for the comrades on trial: not only have some of the requests of the public prosecutor been accepted but those who had been acquitted in the first grade of the trial have also been charged.

The story is by now well known. Operation Nottetempo started in May 2005 when searches were carried out all over Italy and five comrades from Lecce were arrested and detained for almost two years in preventive arrest. The main reason for this judicial operation against anarchists was the tenacious struggle the comrades had undertaken against the notorious detention centre for immigrants Regina Pacis (which eventually closed down also thanks to that struggle), run by the church and situated in Salento (Lecce), the southernmost area of the Puglia region (southern Italy).

After a long series of hearings during which various squalid witnesses for the prosecutions gave vent to delirious declarations, the thesis that the comrades were part of a subversive association with the aim of terrorism had been rejected. However, due to strong pressures from the powerful local clergy and their political allies, four of the twelve accused had been charged with organised crime, two with specific crimes and the others had been acquitted. Unsatisfied with this result, which was insane in any case, public prosecutor Lino Giorgio Bruno presented a request for appeal as it was his intent to have the Lecce anarchists sentenced to subversive association. After all, it was the career of this ignominious servant of power that was at stake. He hoped he would become famous as the magistrate who finally managed to have anarchists condemned according to article 270 bis of the Italian penal code (subversive association with the aim of terrorism), a task many of his Italian colleagues had failed on numerous previous occasions.

Therefore, after a few years of postponements, the court of appeal has finally come to a new staggering conclusion: all the twelve anarchists originally accused have been sentenced to article 270 (without bis), i.e. subversive association without aim of terrorism. The heaviest charges have been inflicted to the four comrades condemned in the first grade, with one of them considered as the founder of the “association”, while the other two charged on that occasion have seen their sentence increased and the acquitted in the first trial have been given sentences ranging from one year to one year and eight months imprisonment. The court has also decided that all the accused are guilty of having instigated the imprisoned immigrants of Regina Pacis to committing crime, referring to two episodes when the immigrants had revolted and some had attempted to escape. It is therefore crystal clear that the real goal of this court is to condemn the struggle against Regina Pacis and, to a larger extent, any other struggle of this kind.

Waiting for the comrades involved to give us further details, we can just express our total disgust at this miserable public prosecutor, his repugnant associates in the local political scene and the shameful clergymen of Lecce.

It won’t be a court or any other servant of power to stop the exploited from revolting.

* news.infoshop.orgOn a recent evening the Sodexo factory in Montreal, Province of Quebec, was attacked with rocks and spraypaint. Sodexo is a company which manufactures and distributes food to prisons across Canada.This act is a retaliation against the industry and apparatus of imprisonment but also an expression of solidarity, with all prisoners but especially with Roger Clement, recently sentenced to 3.5 years for an attack on a Royal Bank of Canada, John Graham, an indigenous prisoner against the colonial state and Giannis Dimitrakis, jailed in Greece for his activity as an anarchist against the state, serving 25 years.- Anarchists

13 December 2010. A new anarchist group in Bulgaria called "Antiautoritarian action for free society" held a protest in front of Belarus embassy in Sofia in solidarity with arrested belarusian anarchists.

A society that punishes/the condition of incarceration/the prison of the mind/the prison as punishment/the rage of the damned will sound on the ruins of prisons/those denying obedience and misery of our era even within its hellholes/will dance together on the ruins of every last prison/with the flame of rebellion avenging whatever creates prisons.

To the prisoners struggle already counting one dead and thousands in hunger strike across greece, we stand in solidarity and anger until the destruction of every last prison.

ARSON AND WILDFIRE FOR EVERY PRISON

On Tuesday 14 december at 5pm there is a solidarity gathering in “Eleutherias square” in Korydallos (Athens) and then a march towards the prison. Similar demonstrations will take place in other cities. So far the call has been made in Thessaloniki (Venizelos Statue at 4pm) and Larissa (3.30pm Neapoli Market)

Sunday, December 12, 2010

11/12/2010 - About what happened at the end of the march against the prison ...
After the pain and helplessness at the death of 81 prisoners in an extermination centre because of a fire produced and spread by the undignified conditions in which the State keeps under constant punishment and torture of thousands of exploited people who do not fit into the parametres of civilized society (obey / work / consume). The State and the Gendarmerie are truly responsible for the deaths of prisoners in the jail of San Miguel and all the imprisoned persons tortured and killed behind its bars.
It is for this horrible everyday slaughter that no cop should go unpunished, not that they should be tried and convicted, but because they must be avenged by the thousands of uprooted lives and for many that are they are willing to uproot.
This is how once the march against the prison ended, peacefully, a group moved to another point in the centre of Santiago, where stones, bottles and paving stones attacked a mobile police checkpoint smashing their windows and damaging the car body, from which a stunned official attempted, revolver in hand, to catch their attackers but without success."Jails cover up the miseries of this unjust society ... the prosecutors, policemen and judges responsible for this slaughter." Families outside the prison in San Miguel, the day of the fire. From Mexico to Switzerland, from Argentina to Greece, solidarity with all prisoners!
Offenders for assembling bombs in the street!
Revenge against the exploiters and their guardians!

On monday the 13th of december at 9am at the court of appeals on loukareos on the first floor in room D70A is the next trial of Giannis Dimtrakis. It will begin with the testimony of special agent Andraskelas and then with the defence witnesses.

The final decision will probably be taken then.

WE SHOULD ALL BE THERE TO BREAK THE CLIMATE OF TERROR THEY ARE TRYING TO IMPOSE ON THE TRIAL

FREEDOM TO GIANNIS DIMITRAKIS

Information about the 6 arrested alleged "terrorists"

On tuesday 7th of december the first 2 of the 6 arrested allegedly part of a “terrorist organization” were imprisoned.

Alexandros Mitrousias was sent to Patras prisons and Kostas Sakkas to the prisons of Navplio.

THE WEAPONS FOUND IN AGRINIO WERE ALSO FOUND "CLEAN" AFTER THE EXTENSIVE BALISTICS EXAMINATION.

As it appears the efforts of the anti-terrorist police to connect the guns, that were found in the possession of A.Mitrousias. and K.Sakkas, and those that were found in the house in Agrinio, with terrorist attacks and specifically with actions of the Sect of Revoutionaries were fruitless. Specifically, the balistic examination showed that the guns that were found in a"safehouse" on the corner of Daskalopoulou and Praidou street have not been used in any terrorist action.

Information about the arrested in the Nadir squat (steki) in Thessaloniki

On thursday the 9th of december the last 5 of the 11 arrested after the police raid on the Nadir squat in the students accommodations in thessaloniki on saturday the 4th.

3 were released with conditions until the court and the 2 under aged were imprisoned!! the two brothers are accused of participating in the attack in the university. The third person is a young bulgarian which they are conserned he might flee the country because he has “does not have a proof of a steady adress.

We remind that out of the 6 that went to the prosecutor on wednesday the 8th, 1 was imprisoned, so the total of the imprisoned from the arrested of Nadir goes up to 3.

THE OTHER FOUR OF THE ARRESTED ALLEGEDELY PART OF A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION ARE IMPRISONED FACING 4 FELONIES AND 2 DELINQUENCIES BASED ON THE ANTI-TERRORIST LAWS

The imprisoned are Stella Antoniou, Dimitris Michail, Christos Politis and Giorgos Karagiannidis who after the completion of their pleas with the agreement of the interrogator and the public prosecutor are confronted with charges that concern the “offences” of constitution and integration in a “terrorist organisation”, “terrorist organisation”, “terrorist actions”, “possession and manufacturing of explosives” and “distinguished case of gun possesion”.

All that remains is to see what attitude the alleged terrorists will keep.

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR SOLIDARITY

Comrades,

We are three political prisoners, members of the armed group Revolutionary Struggle [Epanastatikos Agonas], and we send you militant greetings from the Greek prisons.

We were arrested in April 2010 along with other three comrades who are being accused of involvement in the organization. Since then, we have been on pretrial detention [under the terrorism act], waiting to be referred to a trial in the first months of 2011.

In an open political letter to society, the three of us claimed political responsibility for our participation in the organization of Revolutionary Struggle. In this way, we defended our actions which were directed against the Capital and the State, and contributed through practice and speech towards the overthrowal of the State and capitalism, aiming at social revolution, at a non-statist, anti-authoritarian, communal and communist society, in which assemblies and councils of the people will undertake social, political and economic operation and management.

By claiming political responsibility, we also want to defend the armed struggle, and to highlight its timelessness and importance within the broader struggle for the overthrowal and social revolution. Most importantly, we want to highlight its relevance and necessity for our times. It is our belief that the appropriate objective conditions for the overthrowal of capitalism have developed in this era of global economic crisis more than in any other time since the Second World War.

Also, by undertaking political responsibility we wanted to restore the memory and honour of our comrade Lambros Foundas, who was a member of the Revolutionary Struggle and was killed in an armed clash with cops in March 2010 during an attempted expropriation of a car –a preparatory action of a wider action plan of our organization.

The political, economic and social environment in which the Revolutionary Struggle was formed and has developed its action is very different from that of the Western-European urban guerrilla groups, which were active from the 1970s and 1980s up until the early 1990s. Back then the bipolar, the competition between the US-USSR and their political-economic systems were dominant. It was the time when the model of Keynesianism was sinking into crisis and political devaluation, as the Capital regained its strength against the proletariat, governments of Western countries one after the other abandoned state intervention in the economy – the so-called ‘economics of demand’ – and replaced them with ‘economics of supply’, while the States began the assault on labor and social gains, defending the interests of the economically powerful and imposing the neoliberal financial and political model of governance.

The economic and political environment in which the Revolutionary Struggle was formed was set by the USA monocracy, the economic globalization, the neoliberalism and the fight against terrorism, which is the peak of the political-military globalization. Because, for us, both the “fight against terrorism” and the totalitarianism of the markets are two sides of the same coin; they are the political and economic nature of the globalization. Whenever and wherever the globalization is not able to be imposed by the weapons of the capitalists and international financial institutions (IMF, WB, WTO, ECB, FED), by the financial tools of international stock markets, by poverty, hunger and marginalization, it is imposed by the sharpening of state violence and power, by the repression, the war and military incursions, by fire and iron.

The period from 2003, when the Revolutionary Struggle started its action, up to 2007, while the growing social crisis was creating strong social dissatisfaction, the neoliberal consensus was strong, due to the fact that the capitalist development was continued ‘smoothly’ using the bank loans, as a global scale bubble growing against the successive financial crises that were shaking the planet (Southeast Asia crisis, economic collapse in Argentina, Dot.com crisis in the US).

Since 2007, year of the fist ‘bursting of the bubble’ of the residential mortgage loans in the US, which gave the onset of the global financial crisis, the failure of the neoliberal consensus started, leading to a deeper and deeper political and social scorn for the regime.

During its first period the Revolutionary Struggle set as cutting-edge issues the ‘fight against terrorism’ with the military operations of the US and their Western allies to the countries of the region, and with the intensity of state violence, repression and terrorism in the countries of the capitalist centre and the semi-periphery, in which substantially Greece belongs (rocket attack against the US Embassy, attack against the former minister of Public Order, against police targets and courts), the neoliberal invasion, the marketization of all the economic and social functions left, the attack of the Capital against labor gains (bomb attacks against Ministries of Employment and Economy).

Then, since 2008, the global financial crisis was a true challenge for us in order to upgrade our action, making attacks against economic structures and institutions such as the stock market, Citibank and Eurobank. Our ambition was to hurt the vulnerable – due to the crisis – system as long as possible, to strongly sabotage the political choices of the Greek government and the ‘rescue-of-the-country’ plans imposed by the troika (IMF, EU, ECB).

This was the reason that PASOK government was so afraid of the Revolutionary Struggle, since – according to the statements of a member of the government – the organization ‘could blow up the financial measures.’ That’s why our arrests, which took place a few days before the IMF, the EU and the ECB entirely take the reins of power in Greece, were characterized by the Greek government and other European and American political factors as a great success.

For us, the financial crisis we live today is the first truly global crisis in history and the only one since the Great Depression of the early 1930s that affects so intensely all the countries of the capitalist centre, while its character is systemic; it concerns the nature of the capitalism itself and the nature of the market economy, and it is multi-dimensional, because other than financial it is political, social and environmental.

On the occasion of the current crisis, both economic and political elites around the world conduct a frontal attack against societies; former achievements of the labor movement are permanently buried in the name of competitiveness, the welfare state is long past, while institutions of the system such as the nation state lose their importance, concepts such as sovereignty have no real meaning, and representative democracy in many countries such as Greece, which come under the supervision of the transnational elite and economic institutions (IMF, Central banks, etc.) is humiliated, since in fact a series of constitutional provisions are cancelled, and it becomes the vehicle for the establishment of a globalized totalitarianism, that of markets, multinationals, bankers and their political institutions.

Against this charge of the political and economical elites there is no room for the implementation of Keynesian experiments and reforms. This has been obvious by the governments’ respond to the crisis, by unleashing their wildest neoliberal attack against the middle and lower classes, against the willing of the majority of people. On the occasion of the financial crisis, they forward the greatest robbery and looting in human history and the greatest transaction of wealth from the basis to the top of the social hierarchy, driving more and more people to hunger, impoverish and death.

For vast parts of the societies both of the periphery and the centre of the capitalist world, the neoliberal model of development has bankrupt alongside the general economic regime. Next in line to fall is the political system of the representative democracy.

The lack of social consent doesn’t stop the European governments from a series of political coup d’état with the excuse of over-passing the crisis while supported only by minorities. In this way, they provoke the rage and exasperation of the social majorities, which quite often are expressed in violent ways on the streets of European cities (of France, England, Greece, Ireland, Italy…).

All the above record a series of political and social conditions that, for us, are the most appropriate in order to put into practice the international proletarian counterattack, to accomplish the overthrowal of capitalism and the State, to undertake the revolution. Because today the dilemma of the fighters but also the people repressed is one: social revolution or total submission and death.

Our obligation is to create the subjective circumstances, namely to contribute to the creation of a polymorphic revolutionary movement at national and international level that will form the conditions for the realization of the social revolution.

Within this political and social situation, the armed struggle can be of particular importance and may hold a central role, as it may reflect the overall political conflict with the regime, to herald the armed proletarian counterattack of peoples and to propagandize in the most dynamic way the overthrowal and social revolution.

We want our trial to be a political step to express in public these political positions; we want it to be registered in history as a moment of the struggle for freedom. To highlight the importance of the social revolution as the only answer to the crisis that condemns the largest parts of society to economic and social devastation.

[We want our trial] to become a public condemnation of the system and all its collaborationists no matter their political accession. To highlight that the armed struggle, despite the attacks by the system, is vivid and well-timed but also important in our days in order to promote the revolutionary process. We want to speak out the need for the formation of revolutionary movements everywhere, which will persuade the accomplishment of the social revolution.

In such a trial we believe that the best ‘witnesses of defense’ are the comrades who have chosen their dynamic clash with the system. These are the fighters who have been members of guerilla groups and have remained immovable and impenitent in their choices, by defending their struggles, their comrades who died in prison, those who were imprisoned for many years.

With their political statement in court, they will testify their own experiences, their own struggles as these were expressed through different social and economical conditions. They will speak about the timelessness and historical continuity of the social and class struggle that will be waged until the total destruction of the capitalist system. They will also speak about the struggle that is continued inside prison cells by the prisoners of this war. Because we do not choose the path of struggle to accept the conditions of imprisonment imposed by our enemy in order to morally defeat us and lead us to political or even physical extermination.

For us, that would be the best expression of solidarity; to make this trial a cry for freedom.

The residents of Keratea district have gathered since early Saturday morning
at Ovriokastro in Keratea district opposing against the State’s decision to
build up a garbage storage area on the certain spot. The State has decided to build up the garbage storage area of the whole Attica’s waste on Ovriokastro, despite the fact that the certain spot is officially an archeological site (decision of the Central Archeological Council). In the mobilization
of the citizens participate also members of the major council who also provide
the citizens
with the town-hall’s vehicles. Earlier on Saturday, around 5:00, the pigs of
repression forces
arrived at Ovriokastro in order to guard the area, so bulldozes could start
the construction. Hundreds of people started directing on the spot trying
to block the construction. The pigs reacted in their usual neo-fascistic methods by throwing tear-gas, sound-shine grenades and beating up children, youths, men and women, people in their third age.
The citizens responded with stones, Molotov cocktails, flaming barricades
and woods they
could find around in order to protect themselves and nature. After the straight reaction
of the citizens the pigs stated that they would leave the spot, accepting that their presence
there is illegal. Instead, more pigs started gathering (around 400 of special pigs) but also
more citizens started directing to Ovriokastro. During the clashes, a small fire raised up “accidentally” in the forest because of a tear-gas canister. Later in the
three water canon cop-vehicles started directing also on the spot, while a cop-helicopter
was continuously flying above the mountain. The pigs remained in the area for
the whole night.The companies who are involved in the certain construction: ΜΕΣΟΓΕΙΟΣΑ.Ε. - ΠΡΟΕΤΑ.Ε. - ENDRACO Α.Τ.Ε.

On Sunday mourning around 2000 people started directing towards the spot.The pigs started the war for one more time and the citizens kept on defending with any weapon they could find around. The clashes keep on during the whole
afternoon with the cops beating up even children and women but also having
a water-canon with them – important to mention that this is the first time of its use after the fall of the military junta.Mr. Marinos Aliferis, a journalist, was injured by the pigs’ violence and had to go to Evaggelismos Hospital. Civil cops have also switched off for several minutes the live-streaming camera of zougla.gr.Meanwhile, flaming barricades are set up on Lavriou Avenue and some citizens have also sabotaged the electricity supply.Also shots from a gun have been heard in afternoon, possibly from citizens who shot on the air to make the pigs think twice about their actions.
The guerrilla keeps on until the time that this article is being written
with barricades on several roads, attacks with stones and Molotov cocktails
and body to body fights.The citizens have made it to keep the pigs stepping back anytime they were trying to attack. Tones of tear-gas have been thrown
but the people still resist.Residents from other areas have started directing to the spot driving also four bulldozes with them in order to protect themselves from pigs’ violence.The people have announced that they will remain there for the whole night.

10122010by a participant in the Parliament Square demonstrations
The condemnations are as predictable as they are boring. The public-school educated Sun hacks, who write like some coked up parodies of proletarian semi-literacy, refer to “louts” and “hooligans”. The Daily Mail complains about someone urinating against Churchill’s statue, and the Telegraph is dismayed that Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were “attacked”. Probably by a “baying mob”. Meanwhile, someone in a moustache on The Guardian talks about how, no doubt, this will provide a “distraction” from the “real issues”, whose repetition ad nauseam presumably has some intrinsic value for the solemn liberal contingent.
I can’t even be bothered to look up the precise terms of the condemnation this time. It’s always the same. A dash of the royal family, veneration for some long dead racist, shakes of the head from the banal but well intentioned. Is anyone still listening? Haven’t we read all this before?
The NUS and UCU are of course, for “peaceful protest”. What is the effective record of “peaceful protest”? How does social change happen? Is it always peaceful? Are kettles acceptable, and is it reasonable to try and break them? Such questions are politely neither asked nor answered: that would be politics – we’re just about protecting our reputations. Thanks.
One of the oddest, least remarked upon, features of contemporary capitalism is the way it systematically enlists all its main functionaries in talking nonsense on a day to day basis. The police don’t really believe that the “kettle” is a necessary response to violence.

It seemed more to be motivated by traditional aims of kettling that are rarely stated: to demoralise protesters so much that they are dissuaded from taking part again, and to exhaust them physically so that they go home quietly (not that there was any need for the latter by this stage of the night). While queueing to leave Parliament Square, a woman next to me jokingly told a police officer that if they let us go, she would promise that this would be her last demonstration. The officer replied, “That’s the point.”

OK. Now we know that. They know that. We know they know we know that. But, of course, they can’t say it, officially, in public. That’s against the rules. It’s like the “have you ever taken any illegal drugs” question on a job application form. No one expects you to answer truthfully: it’s a test, the real content of which is: “are you a fucking idiot?” No? Well go right ahead them. As long as you can play the game, it’s all ok.
Another recent example: Wikileaks cables shows that the US finds the obsequious grovelling of Conservative politicians “humorous”. But of course, Atlanticist politicians on both sides leap to say how important “the special relationship” really is to America. Of course they do. It’s the same rules we learned at school: deny everything, keep looking straight ahead and there’s nothing anyone can do.
We all have our own stories from last night, no doubt. A girl had a clump of her hair pulled out. A 20 year old is in hospital, having had to have life-saving brain surgery, amongst 43 hospitalised protestors. I’m sure it says somewhere that “there will be an investigation”. (Tomlinson, cough, Menezes, cough, etc. cough.) “My 19-year-old sister was forced to the floor by police when caught in a crowd and when attempting to get up was punched in the face by a male officer. She is sporting a black eye this morning” says one. Another: “a guy running away from police along Whitehall getting being unable to run further because of a stray barrier. Before he could jump over, two police charged into him with their shields and repeatedly hit him with their shields, against the barrier.”Fair-minded people are against “disproportionate”, “provocative”, or “brutal” policing; and presumably in favour of a polite push and shove. This is an appealing message (and it may make sense to accentuate it to the cameras), but is more or less a fiction. Of course, there are incidents here and there where we can say that particular police could have been less brutal. But if the direct action we defend has any content at all, it must mean we supported, and support, concrete attempts to stop the law being passed, up to, including, and beyond the invasion of parliament – and we are in support of people trying as hard as possible to do that. And it is a fiction that the police could have tolerated that, or that preventing it could ever have been done gently. If it could have been, we wouldn’t have really been trying. If the police hadn’t been at parliament square last night, and if they hadn’t been prepared to act brutally, parliament would have been stormed, and legislation to triple top-up fees and abolish EMA would not have been passed. The brutality of the police is not incidental to the nature of the state, it is essential to it.
So you have to pick: the state, and horse charges against children who object to having their pockets robbed; or against the state (which means: against capitalism, for social revolution); and against the police too; brutal or otherwise. Polite fudges are polite – but more or less part of the continuous stream of liquid nonsense which constitutes the news media.
Next time, we should bring masks to give out. Just like on the Gaza demos in 2009, too many young people are going to get arrested because their faces appear on police footage – and in the photographs of the numerous “independent” photojournalists who sell images to the right-wing press, many of whom should arguably be looked on as police evidence gatherers.
Someone has to say it: mass violence against the police is necessary as part of any social struggle. We wish it wasn’t but it is. The reason is simple: the police defend the state unconditionally, the state defends capital unconditionally, and capital attacks us without remorse – or even a second thought. Reasonable liberals yearn for a compromise: but the state isn’t listening. Neither should protestors.
When Charles and Camilla were ambushed, or a fence was thrown at police, or a crowd broke the thin blue line: those were good things, and we support the people doing it. They are by no means sufficient, nor are they particularly helpful as isolated acts. What is important is that they establish the movement on new terrain. They represent the conscious willingness to defy and confront state authority, and state power. And that is the beginning of everything hopeful

who the persecuting authorities, exactly because they denied to betray values and people,

accuse them as participators in the kidnapping of industrialist Milonas

anarchists from Serres from north-greece

Anarchists solidarity protest outside Korydallos prison, the main prison in Athens, at the time of the change of the year. This protest happens every New Year's Eve for the past six years. This year more than 400 people took part in the protest that interacted with the prisoners inside through shouting mutual slogans and fireworks. The main slogan was "The passion for freedom is stronger that your prisons".

A society that punishes/the condition of incarceration/the prison of the mind/the prison as punishment/the rage of the damned will sound on the ruins of prisons/those denying obedience and misery of our era even within its hellholes/will dance together on the ruins of every last prison/with the flame of rebellion avenging whatever creates prisons.

To the prisoners struggle already counting one dead and thousands in hunger strike across greece, we stand in solidarity and anger until the destruction of every last prison.

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The report of search and confiscation concerning the search in the residence of Hadjimihelakis was rejected as fake by the advocates of the defendants, in today's trial. The reason was the testimony of Afrodite-Nina Hadjimihelaki, mother of Manos Giospas and aunt of Haris Hadjimihelaki, who appears (in the report) to be present at the three-day search in the alleged “safe-house” where the recording took place. Afrodite declared in the court that she was present only the first hours of the search and afterwards she returned to her house, meaning the first floor, above the alleged “safe-house”, since she was under house arrest.

According to her, two days after the search was completed, cops of anti-terrorist force went to her house and asked her to sign the report of confiscation, a typed up 73page document which had as a date two days earlier. She denied to sign it.

The document had the signature of nine public prosecutors which, as it was mentioned on the report, were present during the recording. The witness claimed that for the hours that was present, she did not see public prosecutors.

After her testimony the defence advocates submitted an objection of falseness of the document and they asked that the public prosecutors that claim to have attended the search to be called as witnesses.

The theatre will continue on Monday 4th of April.

UPDATE FROM THE APPEALS COURT ATHENS OF ANARCHIST SIMOS SEISIDIS

30/3/11

About 50 gathered in solidarity, most outside the court room (they didn’t let them in claiming there were no seats).

Mostly today there were demands from the defence, concerning transport (handcuffed etc), and the masked armed cops in the court room. The cops chased some comrades down to Alexandras av. They definitely beat one comrade, it started when family members and comrades of Simos were attacked with no reason by the cops.

The trial continues on April 12th.

INFORMATION FROM THE SOLIDARITY DEMO FOR ANARCHIST SIMOS SEISIDIS.

500 people attended the solidarity demo yesterday 29/3 for our comrade Simos, cop attendance: 2-3 riot cop units followed closely. Passing by the 3 out of the 7 banks that are accusing him the demo passed by the national bank were the robbery took place. Very strong vibe..

THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM

IS STRONGER THAN THEIR PRISONS

POSTER FOR SIMOS SEISIDIS DEMO TUESDAY 29/3/2011 PROPILEA

He wasTARGETEDfrom the oppressive mechanisms

He wasHUNTEDas a fugitive after the robbery of the

National bank of Greece on Solonos street because of his

comrade relationship with G.Dimitrakis

He had aBOUNTYplaced on his head by the terrorist

M.Chrisohoidis for 600.000 euro

He wasSHOT IN THEBACK by the “protectors of the citizen”

He wasTORTUREDby traitor doctors of state hospitals

He wasMUTILATEDon the right leg because of his heavy injury

He wasIMPRISONEDwith five different prosecutions

He isTRIEDas the “robber in black”

BUT STILL

The only victim in this story is the justice you call upon.

The only guilty in this story is your democracy.

Solidarity to M.Seisidis and G.Tsironis

Who are wanted for the same case

DEMO

TUESDAY 29/3/2011

PROPILEA

SOLIDARITY ASSEMBLY ATHENS

Discussion in the Assembly for Solidarity in view of the council meeting on the release of the comrades (detained for 12months)

This Monday 28/3/11 in the Assembly for Solidarity there will be a discussion on thecase of Revolutionary Struggle,since on the 10th of April it will be 1 year detention for those who were arrested for the case. On the 5th of April there will be the council that will decide the extension or not of the imprisonement of the arrested.

Assembly for Solidarity for the imprisoned and persecuted fighters (Athens)

Caso Bombas – Prisioners in hunger strike start on 21 /2/11( CHILI)

FOR MORE INFO IN ENGLISH: http://santiaskoanarquista.noblogs.org/ __clik on poster________________

SOLIDARITY TO THE CHILEAN ANARCHISTS ON HUNGER STRIKE SINCE 21/2/11 (athens)

On August 14th2010 in an coordinated attempt of the police

raids are carried out in various squats and houses in Sandiago Chile

as well as other parts of the country.

14 people are arrested and accused of placing explosive and incendiary devices

and constituting an illegal terrorist organization.

The case is known as the “bomb case” and the arrested are prosecuted with the anti-terrorist

law which was invented during the dictatorship of Pinochet and continues to exist until today.

From the 21stof February the 9 of the 14 anarchist prisoners have started a hunger strike

with main demands their immediate release, the end of the legal and police conspiracies and the

abolishment of the anti-terrorist law.

Assembly of Solidarity Athens

to the imprisoned and persecuted fighters

International Solidarity for the 14 arrested Anarchists in Chile

14 anarchists, liberatrios, and social fighters were arrested on August 14th and accused of terrorism by the Chilean state, around the media driven"Bombs Case".

10 compañeros are still in the Maximum Security Prisons under Pinochet`s anti-terrorist law.

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY with the 14 kidnapped by the Chilean democracy.

Every 14th of the month!!!

UPDATE ON C.C.F. TRIAL

24/3/2011

Panagiotis Masouras returned to the trial today after being released a few days ago, having served 18months without being sentenced (the greek law states that if your on remand for 18months without being sentenced you are released).

Although the comrade so far has abstained from the procedure, he appeared today in the court and took a seat in the defendants stand. But he did not make clear if he will participate in the procedure, neither if he is “here” in the legal sense.

His lawyer did not appear but Panagiotis said he remains his lawyer he just could not come today. The trial continued with the testimonies of the defence witnesses. First the owners of the apartments that G.Nikolopoulos rented in Exarxia from september 2007 to january 2009. The owners spoke of a perfect tenant that completed all his responsibilities.

After that testified the mother of M.Giospas who is also H.Hadjimihelakis aunt. She lives on the 1st floor, above the house that was later called a “safe house”. Describing the people visiting her nephews house, she spoke of people who gathered to watch movies, play video games and have conversations without taking any precaution measures, with the windows always open and everything “out in the open”, as she said. She mentioned that she entered her nephews house many times and she never saw any, as she said, suspicious objects such as pots or wires.

Finally, describing the day the cops of the anti-terrorist force raided her house and the one below hers, she said it was the worst experience of her life.

“Men with masks and guns obliged me to remain under 'house arrest' for three days, while they searched both houses. They didn't allow me to come into contact with anyone outside, neither to communicate with my son who they arrested without a lawyer”.

The theatre continues next Thursday.

UPDATE ON ARIS SIRINIDIS TRIAL

The trial began around 9. 30 comrades were in the court room as well as 30 outside. The defence witnesses are 47. Last time 17 testified. Today two more. The second witness describes the shooter as a very tall guy, skinny with long hair and a ponytail and said clearly that it was not Aris Sirinidis. Another witness, a foreign national with no known address is not appearing in court and the defence of Aris insisted that his testimony is read in the room. In his testimony he describes a guy tall like a basketball player with long hair.

Worth mentioning is also that the court wanted to examine a cop-witness that has had pre-interrogative duties. Aris defence immediately produced a document-decision of the supreme court stating this is illegal. After an agreement of the judge and the prosecutor, the cop will testify as a person with special knowledge, (on the mask with the d.n.a.), and not as person with pre-interrogative duties.

The theatre will continue on April 11th

THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN THEIR PRISONS

NEWS FOR OUR COMRADE SIMOS SEISIDIS

SIMOS IS NOT ALONE SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

SOLITARITY WITH GIANNIS DIMITRAKIS AND THE 3 COMARADES

clik on foto to read more... NO FIGHTER A HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE POWER AND ECONOMIC ELITES FREEDOM TO ALL IN PRISON With comradely greetings Y. Dimitrakis Domokos Prison

The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt seem to be inspiring insurgents in many other countries. From Algeria to Bahrain, Iran, Libya, Yemen and Syria, many people are taking to the streets to launch strikes at the workplace, clash with police, pass to looting and the burning of buildings of State and economic power. It is a wind of revolt that is blowing across these countries, it is a wind that gives courage, a wind that carries the message that no regime, no matter how authoritarian it is, is unassailable. No poverty, no oppression is ever safe from a devastating social tempest. CLIK TO READ .....http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2011/03/its-not-over-on-contrary-winds-of.html

FROM SIDI BOUZID TO BAB-EL-OUED

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Text by Stella Antoniou, arrested on 04.12.2010 (Case of 6), accused of involvement in an unknown terrorist organization, ... and of committing vague terrorist acts.

Statement of Aris Sirinidis

“I am an anarchist and as an anarchist I am especially dangerous for public safety”.

UPDATES ON THE TRIAL IN 2009 OF POLYS GEORGIADIS AND VAGGELIS XR FOR THE STORY OF KIDNAPPING

CLIK ON FOTO TO READ.........”Cops, Pigs, Murderers!” -”The passion for freedom is stronger then all prisons!” -”Politicians, Industrialists, Kapitalistst; Hangings and kidnaps are coming!” -”Hate, Hate, Hate, Class-hate, Kicks and punches to every employer!”

Imprisoned August 14th comrades begin hungerstrike 21/2 (Chile)

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Solidarity is our weapon. Solidarity to Costa, Silvia and Billy. Solidarity to Marco Camenisch. Solidarity to all revolutionary prisoners.

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R.O.CONSPIRACYOF CELLS OF FIRE

AND NEWS FOR THE CASE OF “CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIRE” TRIAL Freedom to H.Hadjimihelakis, P.Argirou, G.Tsakalos, who have undertaken the political responsibility for the ‘Conspiracy of Cells of Fire,’ and P.Massouras, K.Karakatsani, A.Mitrousias, G.Karagiannidis, who are imprisoned

NO HOSTAGES IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE. SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!

FOR THE COMRADES WHO TOOK RESPONSIBILITY AS MEMBERS OF THE CONSPIRACY OF CELLS OF FIRE

AND TO THE FIGHTERS ACCUSED IN THE SAME CASE

NO HOSTAGES IN THE HANDS OF THE STATESOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!

As they are in there for usWe are out here for themEverything continues...

On 4/12/2010Anarchist squat Nadir is raided in the frames of the methodical repression before the 6thof December and 9 people are arrested inside Nadir and 3 people in the centre of Thessaloniki. They are charged with occupying a building, possession of weapons (some flags that are used at protests etc.), running an illegal radio station as well as forming a criminal organization.Three comrades are still imprisoned, two in Avlona prisons and one in Diavata prisons.

The revolution comes into NOW and lasts FOREVER Solidarity to all political prisoners Freedom to all of us !! Letter of the 2 prisoners for the NADIR case clik to read...

Letter from the three accused of the robbery in Evia, central Greece 19/10/10

For before, for now and for ever. Alexandros Kossivas, Michalis Traikapis (imprisoned in the 1st wing of koridalos prisons) Maria Ekonomou (accused for the same case) 19/10/2010 clik on foto to read...

Anarchist comrade Fee Marie Meyer is released

Fee marie Meyer the anarchist comrade imprisoned solely on the basis of personal acquaintances and the anarchist literature found in her house, was released on bail 3 of march while her persecution continues.

Immediate release of Fee Marie Meyer and all political prisoners!

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF FEE MARIE MEYER AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON clik on foto....

Open letter by Fee Marie Meyer on her recent arrest by the anti-terrorist unit (greece athens)

Enough, we have tolerated them for too long! Struggle for the entire earth and for freedom, struggle for our lives and our dignity. The state and the Media are the only terrorists. Solidarity to everyone who struggles is not just our weapon, it is a given. Slightly altering the well-known poem [by Martin Niemoller – trans.]: First they came for my neighbour, and I didn't speak out because he was a foreigner. When they came for the next one he was a Roma, and I didn't speak out again. Then they took the poor one, the tramp, the anarchist, the Leftist. In the end they came for me. … and it was only then I realised there was no-one left to react... Fee Marie Meyer

“We want it all, but we don’t desire something. Nothing that we will take with violence will quench the thirst. Only destruction will, only the possibility that we will reach a point where we will not await anything and anything could happen.

On 13/10/2010comradeGiannis Skouloudisis arrested red handed just as he had torched a vehicle of the Greek Electricity Company. Immediately 4 arrest warrants are issued for close friends and comrades of his, while he is imprisoned in Avlona prisons, accused of participating in a criminal organization.

1 LETTER FROM GIANNIS SKOULOUDIS FROM AVLONA PRISONS

SOLIDARITY TO THE 4 COMRADES THAT ARE PERSECUTED FOR THE SAME CASE COMRADE GREETINGS TO ALL THOSE THAT CONTINUE FIGHTING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE WALLS. Skouloudis Giannis Avlona Prisons November 5th 2010

2nd Letter of Giannis Skouloudis from Avlona prisons 13/1/

P.S. And while the letter was ready to be published, I learn that the 4 comrades (Babis Tsilianidis, Dimitris Dimtsiadis, Sokratis Tzifkas, Dimitris Fessas) that were wanted, are arrested and i therefore as a first move send them all my strength. Hold strong brothers. CLIK TO READ....

On 13/1/2011comradesFessas,Tsilianidis,TzifkasandDimtsiadiswho were wanted since 13/10/2010 for Skouloudis case are arrested in Athens and accused of consisting and participating in a criminal organization. The three are imprisoned in the 1st wing of Koridallos prisons and Tzifkas in Avlona prisons.

The system attempts the isolation of dozens of our comrades who are right now confined in the modern hellholes. The continuation of the struggle as well as the strengthening of consciences is a battle that has not been lost. Inside and outside of the walls the looks of all those who do not bow the head, who deny to subject will continue to meet with every way.

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!

... CLIK ON FOTO..Honour to the revolutionary Lambros Fountas

T HE HATE IS GROWING....THE STORM IS COMING ! ...one day we will meet again comrade, and it will be just as you always dreamed... YOU WILL ALWAYS LIVE WITH US LAMBRO... SIDE BY SIDE AT THE BARRICADES !

REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE CASE CLIK ON FOTO...

NEWS,LETERS,ACTION, SOLIDARITY INFO: CLIK ON TO READ MORE...

List of anti-authoritarian and anarchist prisoners in Greece

FIRE TO THE PRISON!!

For Riotous Assemblies not Reasonable Dissent U.K. CLIK TO READ...

For the spread of the riots. Some uncontrollables CLIK ON FTO TO READ...GOING ON A PROTEST? THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT INFO THAT COULD - MAKE YOUR PROTEST MORE EFFECTIVE - MAKE YOU & YOUR MATES LESS LIKELY TO GET BUSTED CLIK TO READ....http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2011/01//472698.pdf.

TUNISIA AND ALGERIA... NO EXCUSES FOR OUR LACK OF SUPPORT!!

Letter from anarchist comrade Dimitris Michael (greece)

SOLIDARITY TO ALL THE IMPRISONED AND ACCUSED COMRADES, PEOPLE IN STRUGGLE, ANARCHISTS, ANTI-AUTHORITARIANS, REVOLUTIONISTS AND TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO WITH DIGNITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS KEEP RESISTING AND STRUGGLING. Dimitris Michael Trikala prison clik on to read,,,,

LETTER OF KOSTAS SAKKAS FROM NAVPLIO PRISONS 3/1/11

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES

No prosecution of the revolted in Greek prisons

On April 2007, an uprising in Koridallos prison was held in solidarity to the detainees in Malandrino prisons, who had revolted after the anarchist Yannis Dimitrakis was beaten up [inside the same hellhole]. The revolt in Koridallos prison wings was suppressed by police squads.On 14 January [2011], 23 prisoners stand trial for ‘disobedience, sedition and inciting attitude’ facing additional penalties of at least 10-year imprisonment.They stand trial because they claimed their self-evident rights.The criminal charges against the 23 were filed after the deposits of Koridallos prisons’ officials: Vassilis Lambrakis (chief warden), Panagiotis Panagopoulos (deputy warden), Vassilis Kalogeropoulos (jailer).

Dark Nights #10 – Anarchist & Anti-Prison Newsletter January 2011

- Letter from Kostas Sakkas, comrade accused of being part of a “terrorist organisation”, in which he dissembles the economic crisis and urges resistance.

- Letter from Gerasimos Tsakalos, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Imprisoned Members Cell. Tsakalos writes about the 1st Nov 2010 arrest of himself and his comrade, Panagiotis Argirou in Athens, plus his own anti-political ideas of anti-socialist anarchism and revolutionary nihilism.

- Letter from Christoforos Kortesis, held hostage accused of membership of the armed group, Revolutionary Struggle.

- Text from the 3 imprisoned members of Revolutionary Struggle “Let’s make the beginning in Greece of a world-wide social revolution”. Kostas Gournas, Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis analyse the economic crisis with regard to Greece and Europe, and call for social revolution based on anarchist-libertarian principles.

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Marcelo Villarroel: Words of rage and war, words of solidarity. To combat the Prison-Capital-State.

UNTIL PRISON SOCIETY IS OBLITERATED !! PROLETARIANS AT WAR, SUBVERSION IS OUR MOTTO!! WHILE THERE IS MISERY, THERE WILL BE REBELLION!! —Marcelo Villarroel S.; Anarchist Prisoner; December 14, 2010; High-Security Prison; Santiago, Chile clik on foto to read....

Horst biography clik to read....

Horst was born in Altenkessel in the Saar region of Germany on 4th March 1939, son of Alfonso "Libero" Fantazzini, a Bolognese anarchist partisan and bricklayer, and Bertha Heinz, a factory worker.

Giannis Dimitrakis ended : “I was I am and I will be an anarchist. As long as I live and breathe the journey will continue”.

The trial will resume on the 23d of December when it is also expected the decision will be taken.

UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF EVERY PRISON, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, NO ONE IS FREE

FREEDOM TO GIANNIS DIMITRAKIS

Edessa: The political convictions of young people continue greece

Chrisovalantis Pouziaritis was the last detainee of the state since December 6th, 2009 the first anniversary for Alexandros Grigoropoulos murder.FREEDOM TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS FREEDOM TO ALL, IN OR OUTSIDE PRISON

Dark Nights #9 – Anarchist & Anti-Prison Newsletter December 2010

For Mutual Aid & Solidarity December 2010 325.nostate.net CLIK TO READ.. OR PRINT...

FIRE TO ALL PRISONS

A society that punishes/the condition of incarceration/the prison of the mind/the prison as punishment/the rage of the damned will sound on the ruins of prisons/those denying obedience and misery of our era even within its hellholes/will dance together on the ruins of every last prison/with the flame of rebellion avenging whatever creates prisons.

in solidarity and anger until the destruction of every last prison.

ARSON AND WILDFIRE FOR EVERY PRISON

GATHERING – DEMONSTRATION, ATHENS, 11 DECEMBER

SOLIDARITY TO ALL THOSE WHO STRUGGLE - Against any form of racism and fascism - Against any attack by the State and bosses SELF-ORGANIZATION OF IMMIGRANTS/LOCALS Το destroy the State and Capitalism To build a society of equality, solidarity, freedom GATHERING – DEMONSTRATION SATURDAY, 11 DECEMBER at 11:00 MONASTIRAKI SQUARE ANARCHIST ASSEMBLY

International Solidarity for the 14 arrested Anarchists in Chile

International Solidarity for the 14 arrested Anarchists in Chile
14 anarchists, squatters, communicators and social fighters are arrested accused of "terrorism" by the Chilean state, around the mediatic "Bombs case", 10 are still in the Maximun Security Prisons under Pinochet`s anti-terrorist law. INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY with the 14 kidnapped by the Chilean 'democracy'.SOLIDARITY NOW

POSTER SOLIDARITY TO GIANNIS DIMITRAKIS

"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? Bertolt Brecht (the Beggars Oprea)

Letter from Panayiotis Giannos Greece

Panayiotis Giannos, who was arrested on October 7 for “possession of an incendiary device,” recently released the following letter detailing his experiences: read the rest....

Marcelo Villarroel, from High-Security Prison:

From High-Security Prison (CAS) in Santiago, Marcelo Villarroel—a former Lautarista charged with the October 2007 Security Bank robbery during which Carabinero Corporal Luis Moyano died—agreed to answer part of a lengthy questionnaire we sent him a few weeks ago. Villarroel, who was a prisoner at CAS during the 1990s, was part of the Kamina Libre collective, which District Attorney Alejandro Peña now considers one of the progenitors of the “Bombings Case.” Here, despite the awkwardness of answering a questionnaire, Villarroel explains his ideological evolution and what it means to be an anarchist. CLIK ON FOTO TO READ....

The postal address for 325, which is listed as c/o ABC, PO BOX 74, Brighton, UK, on our PDFs, is no longer valid. Do not send mail intended for 325 to this address. Our mail is being opened without our consent by people accessing the office of the Cowley Club (Brighton social centre). Contact 325 for an updated postal address.

“the passion for freedom is stronger than your prison” on February 17.2010, anarchists Polys Georgiades and Vaggelis Chrysohoides were being handed convictions of 22 years and 3 months imprisonment each. The two received near to the maximum sentences allowed for the kidnapping on June 10, 2008 of Georgios Mylonas – the boss of Alumil SA, one of the larger aluminium system suppliers in Europe, and president of the Northern Greece Industrialists at the time (gaining a questonable fame with declarations such as “workers need to fasten their belts harder”).

here are the addresses for any correspondance with the imprisoned comrades (both of them understand basic english):

Some biographical notes. From the Solidarity Initiative in Athens, March 2010

The two anarchist comrades, Alfredo Maria Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos, accused of being involved in a bank robbery in Trikala, Greece have had their bail refused. Alfredo must come out of the prison now. Alfredo has serious health problems and needs medical treatment.

A NEW SITE META TA TRIKALA IN GREEK !

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The ‘Sect of Revolutionaries’ claims responsibility for the execution of Socratis Giolias. Wednesday, July 28, 2010 a man called the Greek newspaper ‘Ta Nea’ and told the journalist where the communique had been left. The full text is published in that newspaper.

NEWS UPDATES FOR THE TRIAL AND GENERAL FOR THE STRUGGLE

FOR ALEXANDROS GRIGOROPOULOS CLIK TO READ ALL THE TIME

GREEK FIRE

To open up this space for the first time — as a continuation of the social opening created by the insurrection itself — a space that has been built by our contributions, a space from which we were excluded. (...) We have to acquire a voice of our own, to meet up, to talk, to decide, and to act. Against the generalized attack we endure. The creation of collective "grassroot" resistances is the only way. — Communiqué of the General Assembly of Insurgent Workers, Athens, December 17, 2008 CLIK ON TO READ...

''A Dublin II Deportation Diary” clik on to read...

"Why did you want me back in Greece?", ask the refugees being returned due to the Dublin II regulation from different other European countries. The deportation diary carrying the same name evolved out of a short visit in Athens, where activists from the newly founded infomobile project conducted interviews with refugees affected by this European regulation.

A moment of shame you scum

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REBEL DOG! CLIK ON FOTO!

The REBEL DOG blog is a work in progress. We will keep on adding more photos of this rebel dog. If you want to contribute to this series of photos please send your photo to revoltingdog@gmail.com (please, just photos of the specific dog) If you are a TWITTER user you can follow us @rebeldog_ath

CHILE – 4 comrades on hunger strike, demanding immediate transfer from Santiago 1 to CAS (high security prison). Vinicio Carlo Aguilera Mery, anarchist political prisoner and one of the hunger-strikers, wrote this following letter: clik on foto to read..

Solidarity attack in London for anarchists and Mapuche in Chile

Solidarity action for the 14 accused anarchists in Chile and the 35 Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike.

Sunday 26th September around 2:45am, Santander Bank, owned by Spanish bosses, attacked in Jubilee Way, Wimbledon, London.Windows smashed, cash machines damaged with glue.FREEDOM TO THE 14 ANARCHISTS IN CHILE! and SOLIDARITY TO THE 35 MAPUCHE ON HUNGER STRIKE! sprayed on walls.

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THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM KNOWS NO BORDERSTHE SAME FOR SOLIDARITYrandom anarchists in london

Immediate freedom to the arrested anarchists! Stop the plunder of Mapuche land now!

Anti-Anarchist Repression – Immediate Freedom to the 14 (Chile) August 18th, 2010 Breaking news coming in from Chile about a wave of repression aimed at dismantling the anarchist movement. International solidarity and resistance – Spread this information and take action!!!

SOLIDARITY WITH THE ANARCHIST COMRADES LOCKED UP IN CHILE!

COMPANHEROS, SIEMPRE PRESENTES!!

DOWN WITH CAPITALISM

DOWN WITH THE STATE

TOWARDS THE DESTRUCTION OF THIS WORLD BASED ON EXPLOITATION AND PRIVILEGE.

FREEDOM TO THE MAPUCHE PEOPLE, ALL OUR SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH TO THE 32 MAPUCHE ON HUNGER STRIKE.

FREEDOM TO ALL THE ARRESTED ANARCHISTS.

Chile - list of comrades hostage of the state of Chile CLIK TO READ...

Represive Strike In Chile!! Solidarity NOW!!!!

CLIK ON TO READ MORE NEWS..ANTI-ANARCHIST REPRESSION IN CHILE. Immediate freedom to the 14!!!

Anti-Anarchist Repression – Immediate Freedom to the 14 (Chile) Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 Breaking news coming in from Chile about a wave of repression aimed at dismantling the anarchist movement. International solidarity and resistance – Spread this information and take action!

Chile - Comunique from prison of arrested comrade Andrea Urzua

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The hunger strike began on July 12th, 2010, with five Mapuche at El Manzano Prison in the city of C

The hunger strike began on July 12th, 2010, with five Mapuche at El Manzano Prison in the city of Concepcion and another 13 at the Penitentiary Centre (CCP) in Temuco. By the end of July, an additional 13 Mapuche in three other prisons had also begun the hunger strike. clik on slogan! to read more...

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FIGHTING IN THE NEW TERRAIN (CRIMETHINC)

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BRISTOL NEW SOCIAL CENTER U.K. CLIK ON FOTO!!

Come on in! We meet every Thursday at 7pm at the Factory. Everyone is welcome. Also please come and visit if you feel like it, we are working on the space daily and just drop in for a chat, look round, cup of tea and to find out what's going on! The doorbell should be fixed soon! Click MAP (above) to find us!

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ACAB #4 clik on foto to read.....

ANARCHISM AND VIOLENCE

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Nikos MaziotisResponding to the question “Do you accept or deny the charges?”:“I am a revolutionary, and I am fighting an unjust, criminal regime known as the state and capitalism. If anyone should make a plea in defense, it is not me but those who are accusing me: the police and judges who serve the rich. I, for my part, am in the right, and I will not apologize for myself.”

Panagiota (Pola) RoupaResponding to the same question:“I am a revolutionary, and I do not recognize your proceedings. The criminals and terrorists are you and the system you serve: the state and capitalism.”

Insurrection #1 Bi-monthly anarchist review 1st issue December 1982

For we anarchists the revolution is our guide, our constant point of reference, no matter what we are doing or what problem we are concerned with. The anarchy we want will not be possible without the painful revolutionary break. If we want to avoid turning this into simply a dream we must struggle to destroy the State and exploiters through the revolution.

Insurrection #2 Issue 2, 1984 B.M. Elephant London

We must force ourselves to see things as they are, not how we would like them to be. Our innate love for utopia - of great nobility and sentimentality - must take second place in the face of the need for analyses based on reality.

Insurrection #3 Issue 3, 1985 Elephant Editions

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES...that of the miners, the unemployed, the low paid workers, immigrant workers, proletarian women, young people...the groups and sub-groups are endless in the great mass of the exploited of advanced capital.

Insurrection #4 Anarchist Magazine Issue 4 May 1988 Elephant Editions

With this issue of Insurrection we are adressing ourselves to anarchists and all those who feel themselves to be in a situation of antagonism against the dominion of the State and capital.

Insurrection #5

Anarchist Magazine Issue 5, Autumn 1988 Elephant Editions

Art of War: The ancient Greek phalanx as a bloc

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Travels of Prometheus

Concerning the social war in Greece and the end of an over here and over there

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Honor to the comrade Mauricio Morales.

Arm yourself and be violent, beautifully violent, until everything explodesBecause remember that whatever violent action against these promoters of inequality, is entirely justified through centuries of infinite violence that we have been been subjected to by them. .. Arm yourslef and combat the terrorism - burn, conspire, sabotage, and be violent, beautifully violent, naturally violent, willingly violent.'

Some writings of Alfredo Maria Bonanno in English, or almost

BAD NEWS FROM LONDON....

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Renata Zelazna is free!!!

04/08/10 Renata Zelazna is a friend of ours and a vegan and anarchist who was on remand over an unfortunate chain of events. She was arrested in April 2010 in Holland where she had moved to study, after an altercation with construction site workers which ended up with police threatening her in her own flat. She was holding a knife that she was chopping vegetables with – initially leading to charges of attempted murder! She was yesterday sentenced to 117 day's imprisonment and a €300 fine, but as she has already spent longer than that in prison she was immediately released...More information can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121038371247468 and here: www.free-renata-zelazna.webs.com

Tamara walked out of Brians prison 22 April 2010

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AMANDEU CASELLAS IS FREE!!

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Massive Administration of Substances in Greek prisons

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Déjà vu: the frame up against Alfredo Bonanno has begun

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AGAINST THE VIOLENCE OF THE EVERYDAY WE STRIKE WITH FURIOUSNESS AND CONSCIOUSNESS click on picture

Solidarity with Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos! The two comrades can receive post at: (name) TZAMALA 3 33100 AMFISSA GREECE To finance the solidarity campaign for the two, solidarity concerts are organised in Greece and elsewhere. People who are interested to get more information or to support the solidarity fund raising can write to the following email address: smolikas2 [at] gmail.gr You can Paypal money to them via: angry_sysiphus@yahoo.com (include a message saying it is for Alfredo & Christos) Revolutionary solidarity with Alfredo and Christos and all the people who struggle against the world of prisons and banks. Anarchists from Greece and elsewhere